Are you looking to implement authentication forms in your NextJS project using Amazon Cognito? Then this article is for you. 1. Introduction 1.1 Amazon Cognito Amazon Cognito is an authentication and authorization service that lets you manage your applications’ access control, whether a web or mobile app. Whether dealing with a small number of users…

Jasypt and JCE are encryption protocols we can use in our Spring config to secure passwords. For example, if you wanted to encrypt the API token of your GitHub repository. Or encrypting the Spring config server’s security.user.password value. Jasypt Example Instruction on how we can use Jasypt in our Spring Boot application…

1. Introduction NextJS is an open-source framework for developing React applications, while Cognito is a user identity service that lets you secure your applications. Cognito also supports the OAuth form of authentication. AWS Amplify is an open-source library for managing AWS services like Cognito. It exposes an Authenticator library that can secure…

1. Overview Microservice is a service-oriented architecture where an application is deployed as a collection of loosely-couple services. The goal is to make each service independent, fine-grained, scalable and flexible, allowing faster testing and release. 2. Microservices 2.1 Business Services 2.1.1 applicant-services Dummy service that returns a list of applicant names. @GetMapping("/applicants-by-job") public List<String> getApplicantsByJob() {…

1. Introduction GitHub is continuously upgrading its service offerings, and one of the latest that came out is the GitHub Packages. GitHub Packages is a platform for hosting and managing packages or artifacts. In a way, it’s similar to Sonatype Nexus and can be used as the “maven central” for a private…

It’s a pain to build the same Quarkus project natively on different OSs. For instance, I’m working on both macOS and Windows. …

1. Introduction This article aims to demonstrate how multi-tenancy can be achieved in a microservice using Keycloak and Spring with Spring API Gateway in front of the services. Spring API Gateway brings an out-of-the-box flexible routing with security, resilience, and monitoring management. …

1. Introduction In this example, we are running a Quarkus application as a microservice on top of an AWS Lambda function. If you are wondering how to do that, you can follow this article https://www.czetsuyatech.com/2022/06/quarkus-deploy-a-resteasy-microservice-as-a-lambda-function.html. A microservice would often need to access the database. Still, the problem with AWS Lambda is that…

1. Introduction Keycloak is one of the most popular open-source Identity and Access Management platforms backed by RedHat. It is known for its flexibility and extensibility which makes it a top candidate in the enterprise world where there are complicated use cases for user authentication and authorization. …